Can't change business phone number

[Geert Janssens]

On Wednesday 30 December 2009, Mike Evans wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 December 2009 15:52:10 Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Mike Evans <mikee at saxicola.idps.co.uk> writes:
> > > On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 14:56 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> > >> 2009/12/16 Owain Sutton <mail at owainsutton.co.uk>:
> > >> > I need to change the phone number found under File-Properties.  When
> > >> > I do so, however, GnuCash crashes, with the following message if
> > >> > launched from a terminal window:
> > >>
> > >> It is ok for me on version  on 2.2.9 and on 2.3.7 (plus a few commits
> > >> I think) on Ubuntu 9.10.
> > >>
> > >> Colin L
> > >
> > > I have the same problem with any changes to properties.  This occurs
> > > with versions 2.2.9 and 2.3.8 on Fedora 11.  I've had to manually edit
> > > the XML file to make changes.
> >
> > I cannot reproduce it here.  Are you using Fedora's 2.2.9 or your own
> > homebuilt version?  I'm wondering if somehow the 2.2.9 and 2.3.8
> > versions on your system are interacting poorly?
> >
> > > Mike E
> >
> > -derek
> 
> Further  information.  I found that a new file/account properties could be
> changed OK except for the FancyDateFormat.  Since my account is set to ISO
> date format I tried to set a test account to ISO data format with an
>  immediate crash on Apply or OK.  Setting FancyDateFormat back to locale
>  was not possible Testing with version 2.2.5  (Built 2008-04-29 from
>  r17141M) revealed no issues.
> 
The FancyDateFormat crasher is a known bug:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=582325

So far it has been reported on Mandriva and Arch linux. You are the first one 
to report it on Fedora. It seems like this bug is not reproducible on all 
distros, which may suggest a problem in one of gnucash' dependencies.

It would help the gnucash devs if you add a comment to the bugreport with some 
details on your configuration. 

Do you run version 2.2.5 on the same system ? Or on an older linux distro ?

Geert